Two Myths About Automation by Barry Eichengreen BERKELEY – Robots, machine learning, and artificial intelligence promise to change fundamentally the nature of work. “Forrester Predicts that AI-enabled Automation will Eliminate 9% of US Jobs in 2018,”...

Increased automation guarantees a bleak outlook for Trump’s promises to coal miners President Trump has made empty promises to make the coal industry great again, vowing to reverse decades of the industry’s downward employment trajectory. In previous blog...

56 percent of Americans believe that automation destroys more jobs than it creates, according to a new study by Ipsos Public Affairs and the Center for Business Analytics at the University of Virginia. About one-third of respondents believe they are at risk of losing...

Running Terraform in Automation For teams that use Terraform as a key part of a change management and deployment pipeline, it can be desirable to orchestrate Terraform runs in some sort of automation in order to ensure consistency between runs, and provide other...

Americans and Automation in Everyday Life Americans express more worry than enthusiasm about coming developments in automation – from driverless vehicles to a world in which machines perform many jobs currently done by humans. A Pew Research Center survey of...